Following the COVID-19 outbreak, Kampala International
University has joined the Virus Outbreak Data Network (VODAN) GO FAIR
Implementation Network, which addresses current and immediate challenges to use
and connect digital health data worldwide to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. This
initiative is to ensure that universities on the African continent are
connected to the global effort to fight COVID-19 and to ensure Africa’s health
professional and data scientists are equipped to harness machine-learning and
artificial intelligence (AI) approaches, to discover meaningful patterns in
epidemic outbreaks. The data will be FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable,
and Resuable).
VODAN ensures that medical data are discoverable by
computers and accessible under governance regulations. The African patient data
remain under the regulations of ministries of health. These data will not be
displaced as they’re visited by the algorithms based on the access accorded to
the data by the data stewards. The findability of quality data will empower AI
solutions that will help end the crisis. The infrastructure will remain in
place after the crisis, to strengthen health systems and to respond to future
outbreaks.
Kampala International University entered in a partnership
with Philips Foundation whose mission is to provide access to care for
undeserved communities and the GO FAIR Foundation to set up the training. The
capacity training is led by the GO FAIR Foundation. Any computer science/data
science and medical/health science university can join the initiative. KIU has
partnered with Leiden University to support joint research based on the data
that are available for analysis under this programme
KIU Visiting Professor from University of Leiden, Mirjam
van Reisen leads the initiative which is coordinated by Professor Francisca
Oladipo. PhD student University of Leiden, Mariam
Basajja, is leading the technical team.
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